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A unique account of life's evolution using the most recent research and weaving evolution of fungi into evolution of eukaryotes.

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Fungal Biology in the Origin and Emergence of Life

NOW

A unique account of life's evolution using the most recent research and weaving evolution of fungi into evolution of eukaryotes.

BUY AT 20% DISCOUNT

Fungal Biology in the Origin and Emergence of Life

Coprinopsis: an autobiography

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Section 1: Introduction

1. How old is Kingdom fungi?
2. What use is Kingdom Fungi?
3. Fungi in natural ecosystems
4. Morphogenesis and developmental biology
5. 21st century fungi
6. 21st Century Guidebook to Fungi
7. A fungus-like root for the eukaryote tree
8. A Day in Your Life [downloads a PDF presentation showing your every day use of fungi]
9. Fungi for better health and environment [downloads a PDF presentation showing an overview of fungi, their place in the natural world and impact on human affairs.]

Section 2: Filamentous fungal growth kinetics: a review contributed by Liam J. McNulty

1. Measurement methodologies
2. Describing hyphal branching
3. Describing the evolution of biomass
4. Describing branching patterns
5. Tropism and Hyphal Interactions
6. Opinions
7. References and further reading
8. 21st Century Guidebook to Fungi

Section 3: World of Cyberfungi

1. The Neighbour-Sensing model of hyphal growth
2. Operating manuals
3. Install the Neighbour-sensing program onto your own hard-disk (after installation look for the icon on your desktop)

Our installation package for World of Cyberfungi installs our files in your <C:\Program Files> directory. If you ever want to remove the World of Cyberfungi from your hard-disk you can do so using the Uninstall a program option on your system's Control Panel.

4. Modelling the gravitropic response of the mushroom stem
5. References for Neighbour-Sensing publications
6. References for papers about gravitropisms

Section 4: Blogs about medical mycology

1. The Cyclosporine story
2. The Diflucan story
3. The Ergot Alkaloids
4. The Statins
5. More about Statins
6. Patenting Statins
7. Traditional Chinese Medicinal Auricularia
8. Traditional Chinese Medicinal Cordyceps
9. Traditional Chinese Medicinal Ganoderma
10. Medicinal Shiitake/shiang-gu (Lentinula edodes)
11. Medicinal Shiitake (Lentinula edodes)
12. Nutritional value of fungi
13. Chinese remedies for cancer
14. Mycoses

Section 5: Blogs about general fungal biology

1. Mostly mushroom farming
2. The Potato Murrain, 1845 -1846
3. The biology of mycorrhizas
4. Introduction to bioremediation
5. Fungal evolution
6. A fungus-like root for the eukaryote tree
7. A Day in Your Life [downloads a PDF presentation showing your every day use of fungi]
8. 21st Century Guidebook to Fungi
9. Fungi for better health and environment [downloads a PDF presentation showing an overview of fungi, their place in the natural world and impact on human affairs.]
10. The Ted Pitman Gallery of Fungus Sculptures in Porcelain

Section 6: Teaching resources

1. World of Fungi recommended books
2. The life and times of the webmaster
3. Click here to visit my Amazon Author page
4. Fungi4schools, the best source of resources for teachers of primary, through secondary and onto post-16 students. Read more...
5. The Children's University of Manchester
6. Zen and the Art of Science
7. It's all Greek to me, except for the bits that are in Latin...
8. 解讀真菌之形態發育
9. Tere tulemast mikroorganismide
10. Galleries of royalty-free photographs
11. Recommended weblinks
12. Click here to e-mail the webmaster